Apparently, quite a lot of people. I spend a lot of my days in a nice little bubble of people who are pretty accepting of individuality. My closest friends are unschoolers, free rangers, vegans and other such folk who move to their own rhythms. Every now and then though, I’m reminded that there are lots […]

There’s been plenty of times I’ve decided I’m having a bad day and it’s barely 7am. I’m a neurodivergent parent of neurodivergent children in a world that doesn’t sync well with our kind. It’s not hard to decide you’re having a bad day by 7am. But it’s not useful to make the call that the day […]

Some nights, I am filled with resistance. I feel it tugging at me as my 5 year old autistic son pushes back the world hard as the day nears to an end and he is weary of it. I am weary too and each request he makes of me feels like he is cornering me […]

I am down with my son eating what he wants. When he wants. I am down with him not bathing much. I am down with him not cutting or washing his hair. I am down with him sleeping wherever he likes. When he likes. But I am not yet down with him wearing winter clothes […]

Sometimes, freedom is the only thing you need to make a difference. Not hours of occupational therapy. Not thousands of dollars of interventions by professionals to change behaviours. Not the stress of spending each week driving to multiple appointments. Not buying trademarked packages of interventions to get in early and change them hard […]

Like a lot of autistic people, my son struggles with transitions. Getting into the car, getting out of the car, getting into the bath, getting out of the bath – there’s a long list. When he was first diagnosed, help with ‘managing transitions’ was near the top of our list. After all, there are many, […]